Thursday

30 Flavours!

Dinner with MEX and AHO

Moving Out :(

Ice Cream!

THURSDAY
Today the light winds arrived. Actually it was forecast for 1-2 knots so Team Bermuda opted for a lay day. We had a lazy morning enjoying our last moments of luxury before checking out. Then off to a very large shopping center called Unicenter. It had three floors of stores, a movie theatre, bowling lanes and small arcade. We opted for a game of bowling then some time in the arcade. All good fun. The kids even convinced Martin to go on the "mini-samba" which I believe he may have regretted but the kids loved it. The ride was a large dish that shook and spun to samba music for about 3-5 minutes.
After the shopping center we found a fabulous ice cream place that had over 30 different flavours of ice cream that was then shaped into a long cone, dipped in chocolate and quickly frozen into a hard outer shell. You could pick two different flavours of ice cream for your cone as well. There was fruit flavours, assorted chocolates and a dulce de leche either super or plain but I did not manage to determine the difference.
Then it was time to head to the official accommodation Circulo Militar about 15 minutes from the venue. Quite the contrast to the hotel but clean and comfortable. The alternate accommodations at the Club have anywhere from about 8-12 in a room all in triple bunks stacked on opposing walls in a very small space with a shared bathroom. At Circulo Militar, we have two rooms. The boys are in a room which has two rooms in it. Chase, Benn and Mikey are in one and Rory and Martin in the other. Both rooms have tvs, ceiling fans and/or AC and they share a bathroom. Rooms are small but adequate. Ceci and I have a room to ourselves with a bathroom. However we have the hardest mattresses ever, honestly. It is only a smidgen better than sleeping on the floor with a yoga mat. My project today after the kids go out is to rectify this!!! On our floor is URU, USA, AHO and us.
Back to the Club for dinner, we luckily got assigned the 6.30 time as opposed to the 8 pm time and the kids shared a big table with MEX and AHO. Nice to see the teams mingling so easily. Dinner was very nice gnocchi with a pink sauce and a dish of ice cream, not that we needed more but all enjoyed having it again. We have table service as well which is nice as it affords the teams more socializing time.
Friday we will go out for practice, forecast is for about 5-8, warms temps and plentiful sunshine, then off the Opening Ceremony later in the evening.